单词 | mitre sill |
释义 | > as lemmasmitre sill mitre sill n. the sill of a lock fitted with mitre gates. ΚΠ 1827 Rep. Rail-way from Coal-pits to James River in Jrnl. House of Delegates Commonw. of Virginia 3 Dec. 4 The only serious difficulty that will be experienced..will be at the guard lock below Tuckahoe creek, whose mitre sill is too high. 1841 S. C. Brees Gloss. Civil Engin. at Lock The bottom framings, against which the gates are shut, are called mitre sills. 1900 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 126 It was opened in 1855 under a State charter, having two lift docks, with eleven and a half feet on their mitre sills. 1979 Final Surv. Stud. Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway Navig. Season Extension IV. App. D. d54 (table) Length between mitre sills, feet..MacArthur 800..Sabin 1350..Davis 1350..Poe 1200..Canadian 900. < as lemmas |
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